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Khoikhoi
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Khoi·khoin  (koikoin) or Khoi·khoi (koikoi)
n. pl. Khoikhoin or Khoi·khoins or Khoikhoi or Khoi·khois
1. A member of a pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa.
2. Any of the Khoisan languages of the Khoikhoin, including Nama.
[Nama khoi-khoi-n, the Nama people : khoi-khoi, to speak Nama (from khoi-, human being) + -n, pl. common gender suff.]
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Noun1.KhoikhoiKhoikhoi - any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa
Hottentot, Khoikhoin
Khoisan, Khoisan language - a family of languages spoken in southern Africa


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In 1664 the marriage of a Khoekhoe woman, Krotoa ("Eva"), and the Company servant Pieter van Meerhof was sponsored by the Dutch commander but, as that union failed to serve the purposes foreseen for it, further pairings with indigenous women lacked official support.
Illegitimacy and family formation in colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850 by Malherbe, Vertrees C. / Journal of Social History
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